San Leone was a town and Catholic bishopric in
Calabria
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, southern Italy, which remains a Latin
titular see.
Ecclesiastical history
* In 1322 the bishopric was established as Diocese of San Leone (Curiate Italian) / Sancti Leonis (Latin adjective)
:* TO ELABORATE from the Italian Wiki
* Suppressed on 1571.11.27, its territory being merged into the Metropolitan
Archdiocese of Santa Severina.
Episcopal ordinaries
(all
Roman Rite
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;''Suffragan Bishops of San Leone''
* Giovanni (1322? – ?)
* Luca (? – death 1349)
* Adamo da Cimiliario,
Italian Basilian Order of Grottaferrata (O.S.B.I.) (1349 – death 1349.10.12)
* Giovanni (? – death 1391)
* Nicola de Lorenzo,
Augustinians
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(O.E.S.A.) (1391.06.05 – death 1400?)
* Giacomo Villani (1400 – 1400.10.07), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Santa Severina (Italy) (1400.10.07 – death 1410)
* Antonio, Conventual Friars Minor (O.F.M. Conv.) (1402.08.18 – ?)
* Antonio, O.F.M. (1402.08.18 – ?); previously Bishop of
Segni (Italy) (1395.12.21 – 1402.08.18)
* Geminiano Giovanni de Sochefani, O.E.S.A. (1404.12.10 – ?)
* Nicola (? – death 1439)
* Guberto de Nichesola (1439.04.22 – ?)
* Giovanni Domenico (? – death 1490)
* Giovanni (1490.06.07 – ?)
* Matteo de Amatis (? – death 1518)
* Giuliano Dati (1518.02.26 – death 1524)
* Francesco Sperolo (1524.01.19 – 1526.01.19)
* Anselmo Sperolo, O.F.M. Conv. (1526.01.19 – 1531)
* Avanzio Cricche (1531.01.18 – death 1535)
* Ottaviano de Castello (1535.01.08 – death 1542)
* Tommaso Caselli, O.P. (1542.12.11 – 1544.10.27); later Bishop of
Bertinoro
Bertinoro () is a town and ''comune'' in the province of Forlì-Cesena, Emilia-Romagna (Italy). It is located on hill Mount Cesubeo, in Romagna, a few kilometers from the Via Emilia.
History
There are remains of a settlement dating from the Iron ...
(Italy) (1544.10.27 – 1548.05.07), Bishop of
Oppido Mamertina
Oppido Mamertina ( el, label=Calabrian Greek, script=Latn, Oppidù, ) is a town and ''comune'' of the province of Reggio Calabria in Calabria in southern Italy at about northeast of Reggio Calabria and about southwest of Catanzaro.
It is the se ...
(Italy) (1548.05.07 – 1550.10.03), Bishop of
Cava (Italy) (1550.10.03 – 1571)
* Marco Salvidio (1544.11.14 – death 1555)
* Giulio Pavesi,
Dominican Order (O.P.) (1555.08.23 – 1555.10.02); later Bishop of
Vieste (Italy) (1555.10.02 – 1558.07.20), Metropolitan Archbishop of
Sorrento (Italy) (1558.07.20 – death 1571.02.11)
* Giulio Rossi (1555.10.23 – death 1564.03)
* Alvaro Magelanes (1565.05.15 – 1571.11.27 ''see suppressed'')
Titular see
In 1968 the diocese was nominally restored as Latin
Titular bishopric, of the Episcopal (lowest) rank.
It has had the following incumbents, mostly of fitting episcopal rank, ''with some exceptions of archiepiscopal rank'':
* Eugène-Georges-Joseph Lecrosnier (1969.04.21 – 1979.11.03) as
Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Chambéry–Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne–Tarentaise (France) (1969.04.21 – 1979.11.03); later Bishop of
Belfort–Montbéliard (France) (1979.11.03 – retired 2000.03.01); died 2013
* Stanisław Napierała (1980.08.25 – 1992.03.25) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Poznań
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(Posen, Poland) (1980.08.25 – 1992.03.25); later first Bishop of
Kalisz (Poland) (1992.03.25 – retired 2012.07.21)
* Jacques Maurice Faivre (1992.04.29 – 1997.07.29) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Lyon
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(France) (1992.04.29 – 1997.07.29); later Bishop of
Le Mans
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(France) (1997.07.29 – retired 2008.07.03), died 2010
*
Stanisław Dziwisz
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) (1998.02.07 – personal promotion 2003.09.29 ''see below'') first as
Private Secretary of the Pope
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John Paul II (1978.10.16 – 2005.04.02), then as Adjunct Prefect of Prefecture of the Papal Household (1998.02.07 – 2005.06.03); previously
Protonotary Apostolic de numero
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of
Prefecture of the Papal Household (1996.09.28 – 1998.02.07)
* ''Titular Archbishop: the same
Stanisław Dziwisz
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(''see above'' 2003.09.29 – 2005.06.03); later Metropolitan Archbishop of
Kraków (Krakau, Poland) (2005.06.03 – 2016.12.08), created
Cardinal-Priest of
S. Maria del Popolo it, Basilica Parrocchiale Santa Maria del Popolo
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* Víctor Manuel Ochoa Cadavid (2006.01.24 – 2011.01.24) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Medellin (Colombia) (2006.01.24 – 2011.01.24); later Bishop of
Málaga–Soatá (Colombia) (2011.01.24 – 2015.07.24), Bishop of
Cúcuta
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(Colombia) (2015.07.24 – ...)
* ''Titular Archbishop:
Prosper Grech
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,
Augustinians
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(O.S.A.) (born
Malta) (2012.01.21 – 2012.02.18), without actual prelature; later created
Cardinal-Deacon of
S. Maria Goretti (2012.02.18
012.04.21– ...)''
* Charles Jude Scicluna (2012.10.06 – 2015.02.27) as Auxiliary Bishop of
Archdiocese of Malta (Malta) (2012.10.06 – 2015.02.27) and
Apostolic Administrator of the same Malta (2014.10.18 – 2015.02.27); previously
Substitute Promoter of Justice
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of
Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura (1996 – 2002.10.21),
Promoter of Justice
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of
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2002.10.21 – 2012.10.06); later President of
College for the review of appeals by clergy accused of delicta graviora (2015.01.21 – ...), Metropolitan Archbishop of above Malta (2015.02.27 – ...), President of Episcopal Conference of Malta (2016.08.20 – ...)
* George Bugeja,
Friars Minor (O.F.M.) (born Malta) (2015.07.10 – ...),
Coadjutor Apostolic Vicar of
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(Libya) (2015.07.10 – succession 2017.02.05); later
Apostolic Administrator of
Apostolic Vicariate of Benghazi
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(Libya) (2016.02.14 – ...), promoted Apostolic Vicar of above Tripoli (2017.02.05 – ...).
Sources and external links
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